More Evidence...as if it were needed...that White Evangelicals

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Interestingly in the UK people who are religious are more likely to be on the left of politics. We have no religious right to speak of . Christian fundies are likely to be African and like Muslims, vote left.

I don;t think you will find a single MP who is against evolution.

Err, I wouldn't say that's true.

The Conservatives are much more 'religious' than either the centre or the left, at least currently. Sure, under New Labour you had the increasing domination of the Christian Socialist Movement headed up by people like Blair and Brown, but in all honesty, the NL movement was much more right wing than left.

Indeed, the expansion of policies on things such as faith schools were advocated first by centre-right MPs under NL and then supported (and currently expanded on) by Conservatives through policies such as free schools and academies which are often funded by faith NGOs. We certainly do have a religious right, but they're just as obvious as they are in America (where they're fronted by a entire party). New statesman (I know, nobody really reads it) did do a good article: http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/201...or-reality

There have been controversies about MPs and evolution in the past, especially (again) on faith schools and the support by NL for the Reg Vardy backed Emmanuel college in the mid 2000's who taught creationism as a trump to evolution.

I have no doubt there are certainly MPs in the British parliament who reject evolution. I'm sure a lot of the Northern Ireland MPs would for example.